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Journal Article
Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the United States — Origins and Implications
2006
Overview
The author reviews the history of employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States and outlines how it became the cornerstone of the nation's health care system. He discusses the implications of employer-based insurance for access to and the affordability and quality of health care.
The author outlines how employer-sponsored health insurance became the cornerstone of the nation's health care system. He discusses the implications of employer-based insurance for access to health care and its affordability and quality.
Varied as they may be, most U.S. readers of the
Journal
probably share at least one thing: employer-sponsored health insurance is vital to their well-being. For their part, most physicians, regardless of their field of medicine or where they practice, depend heavily on employer-sponsored insurance for their paychecks. Since increasing numbers of physicians today are employees of health care organizations, many acquire their own and their family's health insurance in their workplace.
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In this regard, they have much in common with their patients. More than 159 million Americans — 62.4 percent of the nonelderly population — had health care coverage . . .
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Subject
Biological and medical sciences
/ Health Benefit Plans, Employee - history
/ Health Benefit Plans, Employee - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Health Benefit Plans, Employee - trends
/ Health Expenditures - trends
/ Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Humans
/ Insurance Coverage - history
/ Insurance Coverage - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
